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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: a holiday season that should have been alive with the joy of children is now, instead, a season of mourning their loss in newtown, connecticut. the first of the funerals took place today for the victims of the massacre at an elementary school. ray suarez begins our coverage. >> suarez: flowers streamed into funeral homes around newtown as the shock and horror of friday gave way to grim rituals of grief mourners in black waited under gray skies to attend services for jack pinto and noah, 20 of the... two of the 20 first graders killed at sandy hook elementary. townspeople are still reeling. >> really sad. i didn't want to go back to work today. it hit me hard because i got two kids too. the same age that happene
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by wpbt >> this is n.b.r. >> susie: good evening, everyone. i'm susie gharib. tom is off tonight. the white house knocks down house speaker john boehner's back-up plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. we'll have details on his "plan b." we get an insider's perspective on those talks from roger altman. he was a key adviser in the clinton administration and now, as head of investment firm evercore, he's plugged in to corporate america and wall street. and are apple's hot-selling products cooling off? is the competition winning over even apple's loyal fans? that and more tonight on "n.b.r."
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gwen will host this collaboration of all our national news and science programs. check your local listings. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and, as it's looking like the end is not upon us yet, again here monday evening. have a nice winter weekend. thanks for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by wpbt >> this is n.b.r. >> susie: good evening, everyone. i'm susie gharib. tom is off tonight. preside
gwen will host this collaboration of all our national news and science programs. check your local listings. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and, as it's looking like the end is not upon us yet, again here monday evening. have a nice winter weekend. thanks for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and...
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, that climate science even exists. republicans control the house. you need 60 votes to get something in the senate. you need 67 votes to get a climate treaty, an international treaty ratified. >> ifill: do you see a movement coming from the white house to kind of boost this? >> well, it will be very interesting to see what the president does. he did... president obama did talk about climate change in his election night speech. there are signs that he thinks about this as kind of a legacy issue. he's someone who cares a lot about his legacy. this would be sort of a decade, century-long issue that would cement his place. >> ifill: we'll see what he does next, if anything. thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> brown: again, the major developments of the day: house republicans made a counter-offer on how to avoid the "fiscal cliff." it calls for $2.2 trillion in savings over ten years, but no hike in tax rates. and the u.n. announced it's pulling nonessential international staffers from syria, while u.s. officials
, that climate science even exists. republicans control the house. you need 60 votes to get something in the senate. you need 67 votes to get a climate treaty, an international treaty ratified. >> ifill: do you see a movement coming from the white house to kind of boost this? >> well, it will be very interesting to see what the president does. he did... president obama did talk about climate change in his election night speech. there are signs that he thinks about this as kind of a...
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of science news, delivered fresh every monday, wednesday and friday. today's daily special-- the mars rover rumors. and on "need to know" tonight, an encore report about an investigation into alleged abuses by u.s. border patrol officers. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> warner: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are eight more. >> warner: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy,
of science news, delivered fresh every monday, wednesday and friday. today's daily special-- the mars rover rumors. and on "need to know" tonight, an encore report about an investigation into alleged abuses by u.s. border patrol officers. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> warner: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available....
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and on our website, it's science thursday. we follow up on the story about the stranded dolphins and ask experts what's caused the animals to beach and die on cape cod. also, you can learn about efforts to combat malnutrition around the globe and the challenges aid groups face to raise awareness about the problem. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and michael gerson, among others. thank you and good night. moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and, this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored
and on our website, it's science thursday. we follow up on the story about the stranded dolphins and ask experts what's caused the animals to beach and die on cape cod. also, you can learn about efforts to combat malnutrition around the globe and the challenges aid groups face to raise awareness about the problem. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again...
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watch some of the best outtakes of miles' science stories on the rundown. and we round up the most important lessons we've learned about helping kids stay in school from our series, american graduate. all that and more is on our web site newshour.pbs.org. margaret? >> warner: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks among others. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> thi>> this is "bbc world news america." funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard t
watch some of the best outtakes of miles' science stories on the rundown. and we round up the most important lessons we've learned about helping kids stay in school from our series, american graduate. all that and more is on our web site newshour.pbs.org. margaret? >> warner: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm margaret warner. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks among others. thank...
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others came more recently to study business and science and engineering. but as soon as they get their degree we send them home to invent new products and create new jobs somewhere else. that doesn't make sense. i believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration. that's why my administration has put more boots on the border than ever before. that's why there are fewer illegal crossings than when i took office. the opponents of action are out of excuses. we should be working on comprehensive immigration reform right now. (cheers and applause) but, if election year politics keeps congress from acting on a comprehensive plan, let's at least agree to stop expelling responsible young people who want to staff our lance, start new businesses, defend this country. send me a law that gives them the chance to earn their citizenship. i will sign it right away. (cheers and applause) you see, an economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country. that means women should earn equal pay to equal
others came more recently to study business and science and engineering. but as soon as they get their degree we send them home to invent new products and create new jobs somewhere else. that doesn't make sense. i believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration. that's why my administration has put more boots on the border than ever before. that's why there are fewer illegal crossings than when i took office. the opponents of action are out of excuses. we should be...
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much to the dismay of the mars science community. jim bell is president of the planetary society and also on the spirit opportunity and curiosity imaging teams. >> it's frustrating to try and understand why the administration or congress would want to stop what so many americans are incredibly proud of and has been so successful. >> one of their big apply loos is democratic congressman adam shift who represents the california district that is home to the jet propulsion lab. >> if we step back from mars now at a time when we are tantalizingly close to finding the building blocks of life on mars, it may be decades before we go back. >> facing the bleak funding outlook, nasa has gone back to the mars drawing board. john grunsfeld is the associate administration for science. >> we're redesigning the mars program as we did in the early 2,000 that lead to spirit, opportunity and mars science laboratory. so i think we are still on the path to mars sample return but we have to do it on a pace and with the right series of missions that are af
much to the dismay of the mars science community. jim bell is president of the planetary society and also on the spirit opportunity and curiosity imaging teams. >> it's frustrating to try and understand why the administration or congress would want to stop what so many americans are incredibly proud of and has been so successful. >> one of their big apply loos is democratic congressman adam shift who represents the california district that is home to the jet propulsion lab. >>...
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that's our science thursday feature. on art beat, digital touchups and tricks are common in photography today. we talk to a curator at the metropolitan museum of art about an exhibit that explores the history of photo manipulation before photoshop. plus, on making sense, economics correspondent paul solman ponders government versus private spending. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> brown: and again, to our >> suarez: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks among others. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs sta
that's our science thursday feature. on art beat, digital touchups and tricks are common in photography today. we talk to a curator at the metropolitan museum of art about an exhibit that explores the history of photo manipulation before photoshop. plus, on making sense, economics correspondent paul solman ponders government versus private spending. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> brown: and again, to our >> suarez: and that's the "newshour"...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president obama made another foray outside washington today, trying to build public support for a fiscal cliff agreement. it came a day after he resumed talking with the top house republican, and as a year-end deadline moved even closer. the president took his public campaign for a deficit deal on his terms to the daimler diesel plant in redford michigan. >> if congress doesn't act soon meaning in the next few weeks, starting on january 1, everybody is going to see their income taxes go up. it's true. y'all don't like that? >> no! woodruff: instead, mr. obama again pressed for raising tax rates on the top two percent of incomes. >> and that's a principle i won't compromise on because i'm not going to have a situation where the wealthiest amon
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newshour": ratko mladic in court for war crimes; an eighth grader takes on violence in his school; robot science helping paralyzed patients; the defense rests in john edwards' trial and, remembering mexican writer carlos fuentes. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: greece appointed an interim government today as it struggled to escape a deepening political crisis. meanwhile, germany appeared to hold out the prospect of additional economic aid. we have a report from jonathan rugman of "independent television news." >> reporter: greece's presidential palace was a vision of tranquility this morning. no outward sign of what the governor of the bank of england has called "a eurozone tearing itself apart." but for these political heavyweights, even agreeing a caretaker prime minister proved hard. and this is that caretaker p.m. a safe pair of hands for an unsafe country. his name is panagiotis pikrammenos and he's a senior judge. the president congratulated him. "it's a great joy but a heavy burden for me," the new prime minister replied. pikrammenos translates as "em
newshour": ratko mladic in court for war crimes; an eighth grader takes on violence in his school; robot science helping paralyzed patients; the defense rests in john edwards' trial and, remembering mexican writer carlos fuentes. but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: greece appointed an interim government today as it struggled to escape a deepening political crisis. meanwhile, germany appeared to hold out the prospect of additional economic aid. we...
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something like less than two percent of our kids score at the most advanced level at reading math, science or writing, in singapore where i was, 44 percent of eighth graders scored the most advanced level. you know, and if you look at our for every 100 eighth graders in america, for every, 100, 38 go to high school and college, 28 -- >> rose: what are they doing we are not doing what are they doing we are not doing. >> we are doing a lot of things, number one, they -- they train their teachers better, they pay the teachers more, they treat the teachers like professionals, like my mom but treated as a professional, when she taught, you know, you know, the schools themselves aren't war zones, but they have real discipline, they made the proper investments in the schools. but it is not always a case of just money. let me give you an example we wanted to do at the university of north carolina we wanted to do our part to improve k through 12. and to do that, we figured, you know, we were not only part of the solution we were part of the problem because we produced most of the teachers so we wan
something like less than two percent of our kids score at the most advanced level at reading math, science or writing, in singapore where i was, 44 percent of eighth graders scored the most advanced level. you know, and if you look at our for every 100 eighth graders in america, for every, 100, 38 go to high school and college, 28 -- >> rose: what are they doing we are not doing what are they doing we are not doing. >> we are doing a lot of things, number one, they -- they train...
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that's in our science roundup. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by wpbt >> this is n.b.r. >> tom: good evening. i'm tom hudson. president obama urges house speaker john boehner to take his
that's in our science roundup. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: violence continued across syria today as the united states welcomed a russian admission that syria's rebels may succeed in overthrowing president bashar al-assad. we may have a problem with that tape and we apologize. we'll try and get it together. if we're not able to -- we're going to go ahead and interview right now mr. vitaly churkin. he is russia's ambassador to the united nations. thank you for joining us. let me begin by asking you about the comment today made by your deputy foreign minister mr. bog don november. he said today "it is impossible to exclude a victory of the syrian opposition." how would you describe the situation in syria? >> well, you know i think he went on saying that the syrian government seems to be losing gro
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> this is nbr. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening. i'm tom hudson. the nation's governors met with president obama today about what they need to see in a fiscal cliff deal. we talk with delaware governor jack markell. >> susie: i'm susie gharib. a coalition of the nation's top c.e.o.s is feeling pessimistic about getting a fiscal cliff deal.
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that's the ongoing science of the site-- what did happen here? and we opened up the questions in the nova special but we have a team of 45 scientists from 19 institutions around the world right now working through the science of the site and understanding what happened at this lake near snowmass village. >> reporter: if these animals were stuck in quicksand, say for days at a time before they died of starvation, why wouldn't any predators come in and take care of their bones? >> it's a really interesting question and a good question and one of the things we're going to do to test that over the next six months we have an amazing array of bones. we have over 5,000 bones from the site and we're going to look at every single bone and catalog any potential predator marks or calfenger marks on the bonds. we haven't done that yet so we don't know what the result is, but in general we're not finding as many scavenger markets as we expected. this is hypothesis a., and we're going to test it by looking at the bones and see if we can find another explanatio
that's the ongoing science of the site-- what did happen here? and we opened up the questions in the nova special but we have a team of 45 scientists from 19 institutions around the world right now working through the science of the site and understanding what happened at this lake near snowmass village. >> reporter: if these animals were stuck in quicksand, say for days at a time before they died of starvation, why wouldn't any predators come in and take care of their bones? >>...
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. >> yeah, and trying to keep as much junk science out of the courtroom. there's a lot of bad forensics in courtrooms that lead to a lot of bad convictions. almost every wrongful conviction can be prevented and save a ton of money and put the real people in prison. we're still making these mistakes, and there are a lot of innocent people in prison that we're trying to get out so we can put the real people-- it's gratifying work. it's also terribly frustrating because the changes could be so easy. >> rose: i remember a story you once told me, you were in fact hanging around the courtroom, and there was this fascinating trial going on. you were rivetted. you said this is better than any book i've ever read. and it-- so you decided to write about that particular trial which became "a time to kill." >> i had never written a word of fiction, anything, short stories, never -- >> this young woman talked about being raped. >> this 12-year-old girl. it played out in front of me. i i was noses, like a lot of lawyers in small towns, and i wanted to watch it. i had no
. >> yeah, and trying to keep as much junk science out of the courtroom. there's a lot of bad forensics in courtrooms that lead to a lot of bad convictions. almost every wrongful conviction can be prevented and save a ton of money and put the real people in prison. we're still making these mistakes, and there are a lot of innocent people in prison that we're trying to get out so we can put the real people-- it's gratifying work. it's also terribly frustrating because the changes could be...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the u.s. house of representatives headed toward approval this evening of a tax plan that republicans backed and democrats said was a waste of time. the division demonstrated that efforts to get a bi-partisan agreement and avoid the fiscal cliff are stuck in stalemate. >> the house will be in order. >> brown: house republicans pushed their plan b. despite a veto threat from the white house and the strong opposition of senate democrats. speaker john boehner insisted the president had left him with no alternative. >> for weeks the white house said if i moved on rates that they would make substantial concessions on spending cuts and entitlement reforms. i did my part. they've done nothing. >> brown: the public sniping continued: at the white h
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. >> it's a very well verified social science finding that government programs don't do a good job at solving the human problems that i'm discussing. >> reporter: so murray says the upper crust should try to share their-- or perhaps i should say-- our superior virtues with those who have lost them. >> we have right now an upper class that will not say outloud, as elites really need to do in any society, this is a good way to live. this doesn't mean they're passing laws. it doesn't mean they're forcing people. they are setting a standard. >> how do we do that exactly? do the people just wander into a poor neighborhood and start instructing people in how to not have sex before marriage or.... >> reporter: again, the afl-cio representative. >> i'm trying to imagine the picture of the wealthy elite sharing the benefit of their knowledge and superior situation with the less fortunate. that just not be that much fun. >> the way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. it is through a flowering of an understanding within a culture. here's the good news, pa
. >> it's a very well verified social science finding that government programs don't do a good job at solving the human problems that i'm discussing. >> reporter: so murray says the upper crust should try to share their-- or perhaps i should say-- our superior virtues with those who have lost them. >> we have right now an upper class that will not say outloud, as elites really need to do in any society, this is a good way to live. this doesn't mean they're passing laws. it...
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there are some places where you want government involved actually to help, for example, science investment, transport infrastructure. we're building high speed rail. the largest infrastructure project in the western world is a new train line going underneath the city of london. so government has a role so i wouldn't characterize it as get out of the way. but i would say government get its costs under control. government understands because when it's consuming as it was when i became a chancellor, close to 48% of national income, that's simply unaffordable. and unless you're prepared to tackle the cost of government, the cost of individual programs, the cost of entitlements than, frankly, you are just delaying and making worse the resolution of a country's problems. >> rose: five years from now you have have the debt under control? >> well, the deficit is coming down. we hope to have the debt falling as a percentage of national income by 2016, and we are aiming to get the budget into into balance 2017. now, of course i would like all this to happen sooner but one of the things i've always s
there are some places where you want government involved actually to help, for example, science investment, transport infrastructure. we're building high speed rail. the largest infrastructure project in the western world is a new train line going underneath the city of london. so government has a role so i wouldn't characterize it as get out of the way. but i would say government get its costs under control. government understands because when it's consuming as it was when i became a...
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watch the video, which is part of our science thursday series online. >> warner: we turn to afghanistan, where there was more violence today as the secretary of defense visited. >> we'll be drawing down our forces. >> warner: defense secretary leon panetta met afghan president hamid karzai in kabul today to discuss the scale of the drawdown of u.s. forces in afghanistan by 2014. >> obviously the afghan army will assume full responsibility for the security of the country, but we will be there to provide support, to provide training, to provide assistance, to provide help on counterterrorism and to provide for support for the forces that are here. >> warner: the last of president's obama's 33,000 so- called surge forces left afghanistan in september. some 66,000 remain. earlier on his trip, panetta met with his afghan counterpart general john allen, commander of international security forces there. panetta also greeted troops at the main u.s. base in kandahar. just after his visit, one american soldier was killed and three wounded by a suicide bomber outside the main gate of kahandar airf
watch the video, which is part of our science thursday series online. >> warner: we turn to afghanistan, where there was more violence today as the secretary of defense visited. >> we'll be drawing down our forces. >> warner: defense secretary leon panetta met afghan president hamid karzai in kabul today to discuss the scale of the drawdown of u.s. forces in afghanistan by 2014. >> obviously the afghan army will assume full responsibility for the security of the country,...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the old year ticked down today, and with it went any hope of meeting the midnight "fiscal cliff" deadline. house republicans opted not to hold any votes on the issue tonight. so-- officially, at least-- more than $600 million in tax hikes and spending cuts begin taking effect tomorrow. in the meantime, senate republicans and the white house continue working on a possible deal. . >> are running out of time. americans are still threatened with a tax hike in just a few hours. >> new year's eve morning at the capitol began with a warning from senate majority leader harry reid. after a long weekend dush -- weekend of tense negotiations vice president joe biden had spent sunday dealing directly with the senate's republican minority leader mit
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and slate columnist sasha issenberg, author of the book, "the victory lab, the secret science of winning campaigns." now in new york city. carol leigh let me start with you. at what point did the obama campaign, did the obama team begin to think about how they wanted to position themselveses and how did they do it? >> very early. they-- the first step that they took was to determine that they were going to run in a terrible economy, and they needed a message that would be sailiable, regardless of what was happening in the economy, so they settled on this notion that they wanted to make the election about a choice, where voters were going to look and decide which candidate was going to stick up for them. and that's why the president hammer on the middle class message. that was an early decision. >> woodruff: even before they knew who their opponent was. >> exactly. their opponent they always assumed was going to be the economy essentially. as time moved on and they figured it was definitely going to be romney they zeroed in on him. and there were a couple of pivotal moments throughout the
and slate columnist sasha issenberg, author of the book, "the victory lab, the secret science of winning campaigns." now in new york city. carol leigh let me start with you. at what point did the obama campaign, did the obama team begin to think about how they wanted to position themselveses and how did they do it? >> very early. they-- the first step that they took was to determine that they were going to run in a terrible economy, and they needed a message that would be...
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he currently writes about american politics, american culture, american science, american behavior. and much more. i am always pleased to have him share those ideas with us on this program. so welcome. >> don't forget bruce springstein. >> right. you never thought about writing a song by the way. >> that is truly beyond me. >> you never know. >> foreign policy, you and inn a column within the last six months said barack obama on foreign policy gets high marks from this columnist. >> right. and we've seen why in the contrast in the last couple of days. the american people always vote for the candidate who is more orderly, who seems to preserve stability and order especially in foreign policy. so in 2004 george bush seemed more orderly than john kerry, seemed safer, more secure oriented. in 2008 obama seemed more orderly and a safer pair of hands than mccain. >> rose: on the economy or -- >> on everything. and that is one of obama's strengths, that he has a sense of order and slowness and deliberation. a sense of gravity. >> rose: and he's not emotional. >> right. so i think that's re
he currently writes about american politics, american culture, american science, american behavior. and much more. i am always pleased to have him share those ideas with us on this program. so welcome. >> don't forget bruce springstein. >> right. you never thought about writing a song by the way. >> that is truly beyond me. >> you never know. >> foreign policy, you and inn a column within the last six months said barack obama on foreign policy gets high marks from...
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. >> rose: does religion offer things that science doesn't? >> faith. i think religion is-- religion comes from society, it's organized. that is what i mean, a human effort to bring people together. but god is something else. it's much harder. he has all the religions he wants, as you know in his earlier life he practed all three different religion. he lost all of that in his society's pam three, anything he can rely on, he's cast on the ocean to face the abstract idea of god. it's rather abstract and his mostly inner self. that's something else gla john martell noted one of the significant differences between the film and book, the film's implication that richard parker became friends with pi. >> that's not quite my intention, though. i think richard parker represents something very complicatefor me. and they can be friend, companion in some ways. can be adversaries. it can be a reflection of himself. the way of nature. >> rose: "in the novel heremains a true tiger in there is never a notion of friendship. for the sake of the movie he's created a sligh
. >> rose: does religion offer things that science doesn't? >> faith. i think religion is-- religion comes from society, it's organized. that is what i mean, a human effort to bring people together. but god is something else. it's much harder. he has all the religions he wants, as you know in his earlier life he practed all three different religion. he lost all of that in his society's pam three, anything he can rely on, he's cast on the ocean to face the abstract idea of god. it's...
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supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> this is nbr. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening. i'm tom hudson. the fiscal cliff debate hits the floor of the u.s. house but not much progress is made. warren buffett and others tell lawmakers to look for more money from the estate tax. >> susie: i'm susie gharib. could another major bond-buying program be on the way? what we could hear tomorrow as federal reserve policymakers wrap up their two-day meeting. >> tom: ever wonder what goes into making those cardboard store displays? tonight, we look at how one box mp
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the answer is part of our science roundup online. hari sreenivasan has the details. >> sreenivasan: the image resembles a lite-bright time lapse. find those pictures and our conversation with a software developer who set out to visualize the 24-hour cycle of urban public transit systems. that's on our homepage. an international telecommunications conference in dubai aims to set new rules for the internet. what's at stake? we take a look in the rundown. and on making sense, economics correspondent paul solman argues both sides of the capital gains tax debate. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> woodruff: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by
the answer is part of our science roundup online. hari sreenivasan has the details. >> sreenivasan: the image resembles a lite-bright time lapse. find those pictures and our conversation with a software developer who set out to visualize the 24-hour cycle of urban public transit systems. that's on our homepage. an international telecommunications conference in dubai aims to set new rules for the internet. what's at stake? we take a look in the rundown. and on making sense, economics...